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I just noticed this happening today. I checked all of the top albums this year and most of their ratings suddenly went down, and that's because of several 1 ratings appeared out of nowhere during the night.

Something should be done about this, not because of stupid reasons as "my favorite band isn't 1st place omg". The rating system should reflect the real overall opinion of the users on the album (duh), and it should help other users decide whether they would want to give the album a shot or not (among other factors, of course).

I am surprised people care that much about so-called rating abuse. Who cares if someone downvotes or upvotes albums? Oh wait way too many peopl do. To those that care that much I want to say... breathe in, breathe out, move on, get a life, etc. Btw I also want to say that to the so-called abusers.

----Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal

Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996

I am surprised people care that much about so-called rating abuse. Who cares if someone downvotes or upvotes albums? Oh wait way too many peopl do. To those that care that much I want to say... breathe in, breathe out, move on, get a life, etc. Btw I also want to say that to the so-called abusers.

As the staff of a metal webzine known for pursueing veracity of content doesn't it annoy you a bit that due to inflation the scores of the album are actually innacurate?

I am surprised people care that much about so-called rating abuse. Who cares if someone downvotes or upvotes albums? Oh wait way too many peopl do. To those that care that much I want to say... breathe in, breathe out, move on, get a life, etc. Btw I also want to say that to the so-called abusers.

I agree completely. It's not that big of a deal, and at the end of the day, it is kind of unstoppable.

Hey, I think there is an extreme abuser in the last Moonspell album. There are eleven 1's all registered in some PL e-mail, and another one in themix, whose only 1 vote is the 1755 album. The PL guy has 1 10 vote in some Moonspell album, and then an 1 in 1755.

Album votes: http://metalstorm.net/users/album_votes.php?user_id=177329